I wanted to post a video but it wouldnt let me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUVIB2lCrU


This is a video of my Apple Macintosh SE

what I've been doing.

                                  I've been away for a few months, here's what I've been doing.






I got a broken iMac G4 from eBay (I say broken but I mean completely fine but not up to my standard) and I gutted my eMac to add more RAM, a better HDD and a much more modern OS
which supports Wifi and allows me to browse the internet and use Skype!

Macintosh Plus/Raspberry pi mod - Macintosh Pi Plus

 Macintosh Pi Plus

So I received this Macintosh Plus a couple of weeks ago and it came pretty much destroyed thanks to the great British postal system. So after assessing the damage I decided it wasn't worth repairing and I gutted it to start a new Mac mod! This time to make it look as authentic as possible.

I had this old TV made by Ecko, its exactly the same size as a Macintosh (screen)

I have modded it before for use with college, here it is as a guitar amplifier projecting an iPad 2 on the screen with a jailbreak app.

I have stripped it of all its casing down to what makes it tick and crammed it into the mac plus shell.

As you can see I managed to make it look quite authentic inside and the screen fits perfectly!!!

I am still trying to solder parts back together that had to be cut and extended, its almost complete though and will need a little bit more work done before switching it on and testing the screen for the first time!

DVD drive - Macintosh Pro I

Fitted this a few days ago, its a USB DVD drive!

I fitted it because the original drive wouldn't work with my design.

Photos below!

Upgraded the WIFI Card and boosted connectivity to 98%!

My old Wifi stick that came with the mac mini that I used for my project only got 17% signal, I added a new 300mbps stick with an antenna and mounted it so the antenna was external. I cut a hole in the top of it and stuck the stick inside. it gets 98% signal in the worst place in the house. it's boosted its youtube performance.

Changed background to a nice tribute to steve apple theme.

Mac Mini Pencil holder/Desk tidy

I had this case from a mac mini lying around after the Macintosh Pro Mod went in a different direction after recieving an interior frame for it which made fitting it in with the case difficult. So I stripped it down to the motherboard, fan and hard drive and was left with a shell. I used meccano to make a base inside for the pencils to stand on so they did'nt fall about and a divider between pens and pencils. it looks great!

Just some mac related photos from the week

Macintosh Pro "Insanely Great"

Macintosh Hard disk 20

Macintosh SE motherboard, cleaned and checked over

Me with me Macintosh SE